10 Most CONTROVERSIAL Things Said by Game Companies

Sometimes game developers and publishers say the exact opposite of what most gamers want to hear. Here are some hilarious examples.

[believeinmatter]

The quote “Do you guys not have phones?” From the Blizzard guy will forever be one of the funniest things said by a developer

[oftenspanx]

I can't be the only person who still has a huge problem with the concept of "always online" because 100% unless it is strictly a multiplayer experience, there is no consumer-friendly excuse that our games or consoles should require on online connection to play, period.

[uberempty]

The simple fact that EA went thru the process of researching the mental breakdown side of charging a dollar to reload. Very scary stuff. Should be a really big eye opener to people that AAA companies are strategically doing things to part you with your money.

[jeralmyfigueroa]

I love this, we need to immortalize all of the gaming industry’s mistakes so they don’t keep using their same tricks over and over

[matthewhummel]

Rule of thumb: if a CEO states an example, they fully intend to implement it if given the chance.

[andrewelder]

HUGE credit to Geoff Keighley for immediately challenging Don's statement! That has to be tough for a then-younger journalist to recognize the issue in a second and come back at the HEAD OF XBOX!!

[babanioan]

I have 2 quotes/moments that I find appropriate for this topic:
1. when the man, the myth, the legend Todd Howard said that they knew they were releasing FO 76 with lots of problems but they knew the people would buy it anyway
2. when EA released a statement where they said single player games are dead, multiplayer is the future

[PrimyFritzellz]

I just love how the majority were just EA being shitty.

[timmk]

The thing about the ps3 was despite the price it was still the cheapest blu-ray player you could buy for quite a few years.

[SherrifOfNottingham]

The thing about "do you guys not have phones?" is that it wasn't about the phone, it wasn't even about the platform that it was on. The outcry from the crowd was not about whether it could be run on a phone, but rather that phone games are known for being insatiably predatory. People knew the monetization of diablo immortal was going to be bad. It had nothing to do with it not being on PC, really, it had a lot more to do with the fact that they were making a phone game, targeting the phone audience, of which are taken advantage of on a regular basis.

Everybody probably as a phone, but that's not why people were upset which is what made the comment so rediculous.

[ids]

"And it's releasing only on refrigerators."
*Confusion and anger from audience*
"You guys all have refrigerators, right?"

[diligencehumility]

The 1$ per reload was the former EA CEO, he is currently Unity (game engine) CEO. This puts Unity developers, like myself, in an awkward position. Because now the engine focuses more on ads and monetization, than news features like better rendering etc. What should you do as a Unity dev for 10 years+? Try to move my skillset to Unreal? Or just ignore it?

[loganogden]

One that I still think about years later because it pissed me off so much: In an interview in either EGM or Game Informer (can't remember which) the director of the first Dead Rising was asked about the font size for tutorials and subtitles being so small - basically anything you'd need to read onscreen - and when the interviewer commented that it could be almost impossible to read for someone without an HDTV, his response was something like "you shouldn't own an Xbox 360 if you don't have an HDTV".

Today that comment might not seem so egregious given that every TV made is HD, and they're so much cheaper than they used to be. But back in 2006? They were so damn expensive. And as somebody who grew up poor, and had to wait two years after the 360 originally released to be able to afford one, that comment just rubbed me the wrong way. Like, f**k you dude! If I paid for the console and your game, I should be able to read the onscreen font! HDTVs weren't nearly as ubiquitous as they are now, and my experiences with 360 games on my old, heavy-ass CRTV were just fine.

It just seemed like such an out-of-touch, elitist thing to say. And I still stand by it being a dick move lol

[nugget]

Thumbnail:"1$ per reload"

Me:"It takes 400, 000$ to fire this gun for more than 12 SECONDS"

[keybladewielder]

I'll never forget the iconic moment when some dude working on the Xbox said that if you can't have internet connection all time you should stay in the old generation

[TheMightyDM]

I respect GSC just a little more for that.
"Hey, NFTs in STALKER 2!"
"Get out of here, STALKER."
"Alright, fair enough. Never mind."

[stevokrash]

These are all pretty funny and genuinely classic. Seems to be "modus operandi" for EA. Definitely looking for a part 2 so let me have it.

[sadwpi]

Another Blizzard moment: At a WoW segment, they were doing a live Q&A, and one of the audience members asked something along the lines of "Would you ever make servers that run Older versions of World of Warcraft as they were at the time." To which the guy running the Q&A (Who's supposed to be a PR guy for Blizzard) responded "You THINK you want that, but you don't!"

[cesare]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how amazing this channel is. Every single video is a pleasure to watch

[proud_fiver]

Alternatively, the title could be, how fn stupid EA is lol